When looking at the opportunity to increase NOI through decreasing expenses the ability to bill back water/ utilities to the tenants clearly looks like a winning proposition. In many of the C+/B- areas I am looking fo...

Starting a vacation rental business is a potentially great way to grow personal wealth, even if you aren’t a homeowner or if you have bad credit. Making the business successful and maintaining good ratings, however, r...

As the traditional selling season wound down in August, the Austin-Round Rock MSA posted a 12% increase in closed sales from the same time last year and a 11% increase in median price to $335,000. According to the Aus...

As you know, we're always working hard to improve how you interact with and use BiggerPockets, to improve the way you network, learn, do business, and make deals in real estate.

In an effort to make it even easier to...

I’m planning to do some buy and hold investing in 2014 and am looking to use a business line of credit for my down payments when purchasing new properties. Depending on the lender, they will require a 10% - 20% do...

Hello everyone!

My name is Daniel Suarez and I am from Miami Florida. I just graduated college as a Civil Engineer and I already have a full time job as a land development engineer at a very good company. I a...

Hihi,

I am a RE newbie from the San Francisco bay area. Recently found BP online and have fallen in love with the podcast~! (Great job, Brendon and Josh!)

We got our first primary home in 2012 (good ...

I recently listened to the audiobook, "Work the System," recommended by @Andy Kaufman at our last meetup, and it gave me some great ideas about setting up more well-defined and documented processes and systems ...

@ the conference, I disucussed with a few landlords my ans to convert all smoke detectors over to the ones with a 10 year battery. I didn't realize how rock bottom cheap they are. Any landlord with a little experience...

I’ve never been a huge fan of the real estate investment education companies. There are so many of them, and some of them seem to be a big scam. Many of them are here in Utah -- Ha ha.

One of my best friends is look...